Examples

They taught me, before I discovered Nabokov, about the value of scientific detail in description and word selection, yet they also went extraordinarily afield of the Flaubertian search for the mot juste "right word".

(39-40)Of Dick, Freedman says, "Much of the complexity of the style derives from the ironic fine-tuning possible in free indirect discourse, an instrument that Dick can at times play with near-Flaubertian precision" (41).

York celebrities - "I shoplifted Tao Lin's Shoplifting from American Apparel/But I didn't get caught like Kari Ferrell" - over plodding, stuttering synth, it's more the work of a Flaubertian flâneur, wandering "up in SoHo" and ingesting the floating memes, than an indie darling desperately groping for notoriety-by-association like so much Pauly Shore made-for-Netflix cuts.